Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Until death it is all life.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.